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List Of Ships Named Kingston
Several ships have been named ''Kingston'': * was launched at Bristol. Between 1798 and 1817 she made ten voyages as a whaler. She was last listed in 1819. * was launched in 1806 at Whitby and spent her career trading primarily between England and the West Indies, though also trading with Sicily, America, and India, and possibly Russia. Her crew abandoned her at sea in 1819 when she developed a leak. * was launched in 1806 at Liverpool. She made one voyage as a slave ship and then traded with the West Indies until she was lost in 1809. * was launched in 1811 at Bristol. She spent the first part of her career trading with the West Indies, but then made two voyages for the British East India Company. Thereafter she traded between England and India and England and Quebec until she was lost in 1833. See also * – one of five ships of the Royal Navy *, a ''Kingston''-class coastal defence vessel in the Canadian Forces since 1996 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kingston Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whale Hunting
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Whaling was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. By the 16th century, it had become the principal industry in the Basque coastal regions of Spain and France. The whaling industry spread throughout the world and became very profitable in terms of trade and resources. Some regions of the world's oceans, along the animals' migration routes, had a particularly dense whale population and became targets for large concentrations of whaling ships, and the industry continued to grow well into the 20th century. The depletion of some whale species to near extinction led to the banning of whaling in many countries by 1969 and to an international cessation of whaling as an industry in the late 1980s. Archaeological evidence suggests the earliest known forms of whaling date to at least 3000 BC, practiced by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slave Ship
Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting Slavery, slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea (region), Guinea coast in West Africa. Atlantic slave trade In the early 17th century, more than a century after the arrival of European emigration, Europeans to the Americas, demand for unpaid labor to work plantations made slave-trading a profitable business. The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the last two decades of the 18th century, during and following the Kongo Civil War. To ensure Profit (accounting), profitability, the owners of the ships divided their Hull (watercraft), hulls into holds with little headroom, so they could transport as many slaves as possible. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery, and scurvy led to a high mortality rate, on average 15% and up to a third of captives. Often, the ships carried hundreds of sla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston-class Coastal Defence Vessel
The ''Kingston'' class consists of 12 Patrol boat, coastal defence vessels operated by the Royal Canadian Navy. The class is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project (MCDV). These multi-role vessels were built and launched from the mid- to late-1990s and are crewed by a combination of Canadian Forces Naval Reserve, Naval Reserve and Regular Force personnel. The main missions of the vessels are reservist training, coastal patrol, minesweeping, law enforcement, pollution surveillance and search and rescue. The multi-purpose nature of the vessels led to their mixed construction between commercial and naval standards. The ''Kingston'' class is split between the east and west coasts of Canada and regularly deploy overseas to West Africa, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean. In August 2023 it was reported that the Department of National Defence (Canada), Canadian Department of National Defence had "initiated the project to inform timely governmental decision-making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
